#SMEMChat Topic

for 2/9/18

Open Chat. Bring Your Own Topic!

What is #SMEMChat?

Every Friday on Twitter, between 12:30p-1:30p Eastern Time, a number of folks get together on Twitter to talk about a variety of ways social media affects emergency management. And for 60 minutes, people add the hashtag #smemchat to their Tweets and a flurry of conversations happen.

Minimally, people can watch how others communicate, network, spawn conversations and get to know each other. And, for maximum benefit, people talk, engage, chit-chat and use Twitter to communicate with each other.

#SMEMChat is a great exercise. It teaches you how to use Twitter to build relationships, be present and engage with a community of supporters. Drop in, hang out for 60 minutes, and see what you can learn.

You can watch Twitter here on this page even without having an account of your own.

Refresh this page and see the conversation take place before your very eyes.

Wanna be a guest facilitator?

Tweet to #SMEMChat

Choose a topic or create your own

Come up with 3-4 questions to pose (usually one every 15 minutes)

Questions are usually posed with a Q#: at the beginning of each formal question. Respondents usually answer with A#: at the beginning of each answer.

Even if you are replying, remember to include #smemchat in each tweet so everyone can see what you are saying.

5/5/17 Facebook announced they are hiring a lot of human monitors to eliminate violent videos from its site. Questions centered on the automation of searches and critical incident stress implications for human monitors and digital volunteers. Archive = https://storify.com/crisiswhisperer/smemchat-05-05-17